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All right.

So in the last lecture we learned about how we apply line to drawing the human form.

But now how do we add another layer of that which would be shaped which is the second drawing fundamental.

Well let's go ahead and let's get drawings.

So we're gonna do what we did in the last one we're we're gonna basically start off with drawing a kind

of a stick figure.

So let's start by marking out the height of my person to do something like that.

And then I can go ahead draw my line of action which will just kind of be a straight line.

It's gonna be a very simple form I'm just facing forward that we can go ahead and divide that in half

of the crotch

now we can divide that in half for the kneecap.

All right so let's go and draw the head in just kind of oval shape like that a little bit bigger and

then we can give him a neck.

So we start with an oval for the head.

These are just very basic shapes and then we use SORT OF A SQUARE RECTANGLE SHAPE FOR THE NECK.

And then from there let's start working on the chest.

So for the chest let's break the chest down into basically a trapezoid.

So if you remember the torso of a male should kind of be shaped like this trapezoid word smaller on

the bottom and wider at the top.

So the shoulders are more broad and the waist is smaller and in a minute we're going to go over the

female form a little bit more and talk about how we flip this upside down to make it look more feminine.

All right.

So let's go ahead Mark out how wide WE WANT THE SHOULDERS TO BE SO three heads wide is about would say

about that wide.

There we go.

There's the top of our trapezoid.

I'm go ahead and just angle two lines coming down like this

will draw a line across like this.

So there is our basic chest shape

next.

Let's go ahead and let's draw the torso pelvis area.

So I'm going to do just a simple rectangle.

So we have this angle angling downwards and now we can just kind of keep it going straight right into

kind of the crotch area.

It's just kind of like that.

So it's basically just a box and you can see that by drawing your shapes it's starting to look like

a human.

And we're keeping it in the correct proportions.

And but it's so simple it's really breaking something very complicated down and making it really simple

just some simple shapes that really resemble that person that we can use as a guide to draw our character

designs.

All right.

So the bottom of the crotch is right there.

Next what we want to do is let's go ahead and let's do some circles to represent the shoulders.

So there is going to be coming right off the edge of that trapezoid shape.

And now based off of that we can use our lightning bolt technique that we use last time.

So we'll start by drawing a hand down here.

So when I have the wrist start basically at the crotch do the same thing on the other side.

And then taking this distance here let's divide that in half so we know where the elbow should be probably

right about there.

And then we can use our lightning bolt technique to draw in the arm.

So we start with the shoulder so as you can see we can just wrap that curve around the circle we just

drew and then we can bring that back drawing the biceps shape like that.

Do the same thing on the other side.

And that just comes right down to where the elbow should be

and bring the line back like that and make another zigzag and then do the forearm like that all right.

So now I want to show you how we can turn this line into the actual shapes that make up the arms.

So what all we have to do is we basically just need to connect a line here another curving line.

And as you can see that starts to make the form of the biceps of the biceps as the muscle

and it starts to create that shape which we can then actually turn into a form later by shading it or

doing different things like that.

And then we can go ahead and kind of angle this out like that and then taper it back in for the forearm.

All right.

We could even add kind of some pointy triangle shapes coming off like this to represent the fingers

a little bit more right.

But we already just with some simple shapes are really starting to see that person.

We can kind of angle this out a little bit more for the chin.

I'm gonna get super detailed with it but that that will give us a little bit more definition then we

can go ahead and we can start drawing in the legs.

So first we can kind of angle this and a little bit more with a line like that for the crotch area and

then we'll go ahead and just kind of create a rectangle shape with sort of a pointing edge like that.

We'll just bring that down like this almost straight down now.

The human form is more complicated than this but like I said we're just trying to simplify it and make

something that really resembles it where we can start working out our poses and stuff like that and

we could do a circle right here just to kind of represent the kneecap and actually that should be up

a little bit more because the bottom of the kneecap should be at that line we marked out the bottom

of the kneecap as always on that quarter mark.

So just like that we can go ahead and draw and our calves so for the calves I'm just gonna kind of do

sort of triangular shapes like this

and then we can go ahead draw the feet in so I'm just gonna do kind of simple triangular shapes like

that.

And that just kind of represents what the shape of the feet should be.

So they're not perfect representations but they're close enough that we can really start sketching out

a character or imagining this in our head so we know what to base everything off of.

All right.

There we go.

Now obviously you can adjusting so for example the shoulder width is probably a little bit too wide.

He looks a little bit too big or muscular which you can make a character look like that.

But now that I'm looking at him I should have brought this curve right here in so it lined up with the

edge of where I actually originally marked out the shoulders because his chest is looking a little bit

wide but that's okay.

So let's go ahead and have a look at what the female form would look like.

So if we go ahead and we start with the height and we come down here and do the feet so this female

will be a little bit shorter than it's male.

Not that they have to always be like that but just in general kind of sketch out the head to our line

of action just like that

that we can Marco her neck which on females is gonna tend to be a little bit thinner than a man's neck

or a male neck.

All right then let's go ahead mark out the shoulder width.

So if you remember on females you want to shoulder what to be a little bit less wide so maybe we'll

just do kind of a little bit more than half a head so maybe to about there and about there.

So our shoulders will just be to about there in there.

All right.

So there's a couple ways we can go about this.

So on our on our male character is a trapezoid shape.

So let's go ahead and let's kind of do this with a trapezoid shaped sort of the more square shapes.

And then after that I'll show you how to kind of draw the male or the female torso with more round soft

shapes.

So with the female form what we can do is we can go ahead and just kind of draw out a rectangle for

the upper part of the chest just like we did on the man and let's go ahead and let's mark out the crotch.

So the cross should be about the halfway point.

That's so we need to make sure that we bring the torso all the way down to there so we can start with

a rectangle and we can actually kind of angle it in a little bit kind of like we have on the male torso.

We'll be angled in as much but I can have a slight angle inwards.

Next let's go ahead and let's draw another trapezoid down here.

So if you remember for the male it's like that for the female.

We actually want the shoulders to be more narrow at the top and then the hips get wider.

So that's the basic shape of the female torso.

So we probably want the hips to come out too.

Right about there.

We don't want them too much wider than the shoulders.

You can't do that but for now let's just keep them just a little bit wider because we don't want it

too exaggerated so we can angle that shape out just like this

can do some circles for the shoulders

right now we'll do the lightning bolt again shoulders by seven

forearm.

Same thing on the other sign.

Shoulder bicep forearm

and actually those arms are looking a little bit too short because her hands are not going to end or

we need them too.

So we should always start with kind of drawing out the hands about where they'll be what I have to detail

now or anything but I want the hands to be about their female arms tend to be a little bit shorter so

we can actually make them and just barely below the crotch area there won't be as long as the male arm

so let's go ahead and kind of extend the bicep down a little bit more so we can really extend out the

forearm arm all the way down like that

then I can go and darkening its head a little bit more so I can see a better

then let's go ahead and we'll move on to the legs.

So for the legs in this last one we actually we didn't do the lightning bolt thing.

So let's go ahead do a lightning bolt thing I just want to show you how you can think of them as just

simple geometric shapes but let's add a little bit more definition let's add the White Lightning Bolt

line.

So mark out the kneecaps right about there so the bottom of a caption for the bottom of her thigh should

end there and then zigzag back to her calf

just like that.

Can Go ahead Mark out some feet through some triangles represent those feet and then you can see from

here just like on the arms we can go ahead and draw this out more so go ahead and draw out the calf.

I mean the thigh.

Sorry

we can draw the calf part the shin try a little over there for the kneecap

and then you could also just kind of angle that like this just to get kind of more of that natural looking

shape.

We can do the same for the arms.

It's just kind of connecting those back.

Now all this can be developed into more accurate looking forms but we need to build up this basic understanding

of how the lines plain that the shapes and then next will learn how to load the shapes play into the

forms.

All right.

So I said I'm going to show you how to do the female form if you want to use more round soft shapes.

And I guess you could use this for the malformed too.

I typically only use this for female forms but just kind of redrawing this torso area here.

What we can do is instead of using this sort of rectangular trapezoid shape is we can do more of an

oval like that.

It's just a very simple oval and then we just take that oval and for the torso area we just draw on

its side.

So it's a little bit wider.

So we want the with this to be a little bit wider than that oval there.

All right.

And then from there we can go and draw circles for the shoulders.

So that will represent our shoulders and then all this can just kind of be connected together.

So this kind of represents a rib cage that over there and that kind of represents our hip bones and

pelvis and all that and then from there you can just kind of have legs coming off

you.

And then I won't get too into the detail.

I just want to show you how this all kind of connects and if I properly drew this out and did all the

proportions correctly this will look a little bit better but I can already tell that my proportions

are a little bit stretched out but that's all right.

You should be getting the idea right and then off of these shoulders you could

draw the arm

right.

And so basically you're going to take what I'm teaching you and you're going to apply this to the actual

poses later.

So even those you're looking stagnant.

I hope you're really starting to see like how you would apply this to drawing your characters.

I hope the light bulb is going off and you're you're getting excited.

I hope you're actually excited about what you just drew here with me because this is very representative

of an accurate human form and we can go ahead and take this exaggerated and turn it into the characters

that we imagine.

Thanks for watching this lecture and I'll see you guys in the next 1.